EPISODE · Jan 3, 2026 · 8 MIN
He Killed His Own Mother - The Edmund Kemper Story
from Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast · host Ray William Johnson
Edmund Kemper was a highly intelligent but profoundly disturbed killer whose violence grew out of years of psychological abuse and deep resentment toward his mother. After murdering his grandparents at fifteen and spending five years in a state psychiatric hospital, he was released as a “rehabilitated” young man and returned to Santa Cruz, where he began targeting female college students in 1972. Over the next year, he abducted and murdered six young women, carefully manipulating police and projecting the image of a polite, trustworthy giant
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Edmund Kemper was a highly intelligent but profoundly disturbed killer whose violence grew out of years of psychological abuse and deep resentment toward his mother. After murdering his grandparents at fifteen and spending five years in a state psychiatric hospital, he was released as a “rehabilitated” young man and returned to Santa Cruz, where he began targeting female college students in 1972. Over the next year, he abducted and murdered six young women, carefully manipulating police and projecting the image of a polite, trustworthy giant
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He Killed His Own Mother - The Edmund Kemper Story
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